Johnny Depp must be feeling incredibly poorly, as he failed to show up for filming his new flick Mortdecai this week.

The hunky star , 51, was due to start filming re-shoots at Pinewood Studios on Monday for the action comedy which sees him star as a roguish art dealer travelling the globe to recover a stolen painting.

Howevs, after a few hours of keeping the worried crew waiting they were eventually told that Johnny wouldn’t be coming as he had a “headache”.

The absence meant a big budget loss for the studio since over 100 extras had to be paid for a nightclub scene, along with the crew, location hire AND fellow star Paul Bettany (who plays the interestingly named Jock Strapp).

As a result of Johnny ’s no-show, shooting wrapped early on the Buckinghamshire set and everyone was sent home. (The extras must’ve loved their easy day in the office.) The film, which also stars Gwyneth Paltrow, Ewan McGregor, and Jeff Goldblum, is due to be released on January 23 so producers are up against the clock to edit the finished product.

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A movie source tells 3am: “The re-shoot is only meant to last seven days, so missing a whole day is a big deal. Johnny must’ve been really under the weather not to arrive at all. Everyone will have to work extra hard now to get it done.”

A spokesman for Johnny told us: “We will come back to you if we have a comment.”

Movie firm Lionsgate could not reach staff in time to comment.

Meanwhile, a fellow actor on Mortdecai – Warwickshire-born Paul Westwood, who plays a footman – has gushed about shooting with the Hollywood star. He says: “Johnny was very good to be on set with. It was like an acting masterclass. Johnny had a cane and in every take he did something different with it.”